July 9, 2008

Voyage of the Beagle is just great, especially after the first 15 pages or so it took to adjust to the arcane language. Practical, curious, wonderstruck, elegaic - this man may have been a novelist (and nearly was a preacher) but for his training in and passion for the natural sciences. Makes one want to carry around field guides on botany, birds, insects, animals. Makes one want to keep rigorous travel journals. The idea of shooting narrative films while on the road and conducting field work simultaneously came to me. Have a resident biologist on set and schedule time for observation. Then the thought of staging musical performances in the rainforest while planting trees. Fuck concert halls and entertainment, lets do the hands-on work this planet needs and apeal to the soul and to the aesthetic intellect at the same time. All of this is ridiculous, but that is the point of this blog space, to serve as a sounding board for those thoughts I otherwise let go unexpressed.